Nathan Heaney reflects on draw with Brad Pauls
Nathan Heaney (18-0-1, 6KO) has been left disappointed by the result of his fight with Brad Pauls (18-1-1, 10KO) this past weekend and claimed, ‘I didn’t lose at all.’
Although Heaney has retained his British middleweight title after his contest in Birmingham at the weekend against Brad Pauls, he has not done so the way he had hoped he would.
Speaking to Boxing Social afterwards, he was refreshingly honest in his post-fight assessment, “I let him come in way too close to me and he caught me with some good shots, and in two of the rounds, he caught me real good.
“I do feel that I won the fight, but it was still a very close fight. I don’t think I lost that because, in the first six or seven rounds, I was boxing lovely and not getting caught by anything. I did what my trainer told me not to do – dropping my hands and getting caught with some really silly shots.”
Heaney also praised opponent Pauls even despite his disappointment, “I knew already that he could punch, but he impressed me with how he caught me by slipping my shots over the top of my own, which I don’t get caught with.
“He was excellent, and that’s why British title fights are so good. It brings something out of the lads who fight for the title like it did with me in my last fight.”
Liam Davies won the IBO world super bantamweight title in the co-main event, plus Dennis McCann was able to overcome Brad Strand on the undercard.